A/HRC/RES/13/10
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 April 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
13/10
Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate
standard of living, in the context of mega-events
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions on adequate housing of the Council and the
Commission on Human Rights, in particular Council resolution 6/27 of 14 December 2007
and Commission resolution 2004/28 of 16 April 2004,
Reaffirming that international human rights law instruments, including the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, entail obligations and commitments of States parties in
relation to access to adequate housing,
Recalling the principles and commitments with regard to adequate housing
enshrined in the relevant provisions of declarations and programmes adopted by major
United Nations conferences and summits and at special sessions of the General Assembly
and by their follow-up meetings, inter alia, the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements
and the Habitat Agenda (A/CONF.165/14), and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human
Settlements in the New Millennium adopted at the twenty-fifth special session of the
Assembly, and annexed to its resolution S-25/2 of 9 June 2001,
Noting the work of the United Nations treaty bodies, in particular the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in the promotion of the rights related to adequate
housing, including its general comments Nos. 4, 7, 9 and 16,
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GE.10-12845
The resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the
Council on its thirteenth session (A/HRC/13/56), chap. I.